One of the nice things about Lens Blur is it's the filter that you can use in…order to direct a viewer's attention to something. You can use it to reduce and…simplify in order to direct focus to a specific area in your photograph.…Now here I have this photograph from London that I took a little while ago, and…I like this image. I like that it is at night, and you can tell it's a…Christmas time and the Merrygoaround. My favorite part about it is this…solitary figure right here looking at the merry-go-round and I like that I have…motion blur, and there is something about just someone been by themselves at…Christmas time, watching these kids go around here and you don't really know…what the story is.…

Now there are another couple of interesting elements. There is a group of…people here, then there is someone looking at me right here. Now what I would…really like to do is direct the attention back over to this person, because I…think that's really why I took this photograph, right? Because he was just…

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1/13/2009

In Photoshop CS4 for Photographers: Creative Effects, Chris Orwig flexes the muscles of this powerful program to create unique and eye-catching photographic effects. A passionate photographer, Chris demonstrates how to enhance images through adding light for emphasis, adding drop and directional shadows, and using motion blur and film grain creatively. He also covers how to add a distressed look to create a vintage-style photograph, use infrared and solarization, apply creative layer blending, and much more. The course culminates with a step-by-step look at some real-world projects that utilize the techniques. Exercise files accompany the course.